Thread: Why is my backup smaller than the original HD?
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Old 08-06-2005, 02:18 PM
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Ulf:

If you used "Backup - all files", it sounds like your source drive was chock full of temporary and swap files. But 30GB of swap/temp is a LOT. Has it been a long time since you last restarted this machine?
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